The role of Mediterranean diet in the epidemiology of metabolic syndrome; converting epidemiology to clinical practice

Lipids in Health and Disease

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Polychronopoulos, Evangelos ^a  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; FAT; PROTEIN; VITAMIN;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DAIRY PRODUCT; EXERCISE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; LIPID STORAGE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; REVIEW;

CORONARY DISEASE; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; HUMANS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X;

EID: 21444449698     PISSN: 1476511X     EISSN: 1476511X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-511X-4-7     Document Type: Review

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